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Enryaku-ji (延暦寺,
Enryaku-ji) is a
Tendai monastery located on
Mount Hiei in Ōtsu,
overlooking Kyoto. It was
first founded in 788
during the
early Heian...
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Enryaku (延暦) was a ****anese era name (年号, nengō, "year name")
after Ten'ō and
before Daidō. This
period spanned the
years from
August 782
through May...
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subordinate temples connected to it. A
famous sōhei
monastery is
Enryaku-ji on
Mount Hiei, just
outside Kyoto,
while Kō****u-ji in Nara also fielded...
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between Oda
Nobunaga and the sōhei (warrior monks) of the
monasteries of
Enryaku-ji on
Mount Hiei near
Kyoto on
September 30, 1571. It is said that Oda...
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border between the
Kyoto and
Shiga Prefectures, ****an. The
temple of
Enryaku-ji, the
first outpost of the ****anese
Tendai (Chin. Tiantai) sect of Buddhism...
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religious center Enryaku-ji, in Kyoto. The main
object of
worship is Yakushirurikō
Nyorai (薬師瑠璃光如来). It was
named in a
reference both to the
Enryaku-ji's location...
- centuries. Its name was
ranked with the Ise-jingu Shrine, Koya-san
Temple and
Enryaku-ji temples.
Togakushisan Kansyuin Kenkou-ji was the
formal name of the...
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chief priest of the
Tendai sect at
Enryaku-ji on Mt. Hiei near Kyoto. Risshaku-ji was
founded as a
branch temple of
Enryaku-ji by the
order of
Emperor Seiwa...
- The head
temple of the
Jimon sect of Tendai, it is a
sister temple to
Enryaku-ji, at the top of the mountain, and is one of the four
largest temples...
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Examples of
temple names that have
these suffixes are Kiyomizu-dera,
Enryaku-ji and Kōtoku-in. The ****anese word for a
Buddhist temple, tera (寺), was...
